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Mattel Jones	Vampire hyper speed FX first seen?	Lead	[-]
Sep 12 11 10:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What is the earliest use of a vampire shown moving at preternatural speed in film or TV? My wife asked me and I wasn't sure. It seems like something I first saw on TV but I'm not sure. I know someone must have done it before the Twilight films. Just to be clear I'm referring to the FX that shows a vampire zipping from one point to another like the Flash.
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hermanthegerm		#1	[-]
Sep 14 11 3:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nosferatu. "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
Koukol 5		#2	[-]
Sep 14 11 5:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	hermanthegerm wrote: Nosferatu. The coach scene anyways.
Rick		#3	[-]
Sep 14 11 5:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Also the scene of Orlock loading the boxes on the wagon. But I suspect Mattel already knew this, or, at least, it's not exactly what he's looking for. I think he wants something more CGI-ish, more, pardon the word, TWILIGHT-ish, rather than the undercranked zippiness of NOSFERATU. Last Edited By: Rick Sep 14 11 5:55 PM. Edited 1 times.
PhantomXCI		#4	[-]
Sep 14 11 9:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE was the first film in which I recall seeing this effect.
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Mattel Jones		#5	[-]
Sep 15 11 6:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	NOSFERATU is a great answer on general principals but I'm not sure it influenced subsequent films in terms of the speed effect. I was thinking it was INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE too as I seem to recall the vamp in that film using his speed to prove what he was to the interviewer, however I don't remember if it was used much in the rest of the film. I think that film (and book series) certainly inspired most of the vampire mythos popular today (as seen in TRUE BLOOD, TWILIGHT, BEING HUMAN, and possibly THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, which I have never watched). I don't recall that the character in FOREVER KNIGHT used hyper speed, but that show IIRC predates the Anne Rice films and books.
oldmanster		#6	[-]
Sep 16 11 5:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, Being Human and Twilight both appeared in 2008, so if the ultra-fast vampires debuted there, they beat The Vampire Diaries by one year. That's a little too recent in both cases, I think. Interview (1994) is much more reasonable, though I don't remember the exact scene in which that "action" occurs, and I don't remember any other earlier films doing that. Count Yorga runs fast down the hall, but he's running at "normal" speed. ... Reed
PhantomXCI		#7	[-]
Sep 16 11 10:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In INTERVIEW, the effect was also used for the "sliced in half by a scythe"-death of Stephen Rea.
hermanthegerm		#8	[-]
Sep 17 11 6:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mattel Jones wrote: NOSFERATU is a great answer on general principals (sic) but I'm not sure it influenced subsequent films in terms of the speed effect... Sorry. No. It was Nosferatu. You have your answer. Nothing earlier than that. "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
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